---
type: api
title: Enable a user profile
description: **All methods and paths for this operation:**
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4371/api/doc/elasticsearch/v9/operation/operation-security-enable-user-profile
resource: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4371/api/doc/elasticsearch/v9/operation/operation-security-enable-user-profile
products:
  - Elasticsearch
---

# Enable a user profile


Availability: 8.2+

## Paths

- `POST` (also `PUT`) `/_security/profile/{uid}/_enable`

- [Api key auth](/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4371/api/doc/elasticsearch/v9/authentication#apikeyauth)
- [Basic auth](/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4371/api/doc/elasticsearch/v9/authentication#basicauth)
- [Bearer auth](/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4371/api/doc/elasticsearch/v9/authentication#bearerauth)

#### Path Parameters

- `uid` (string)
  A unique identifier for the user profile.

## Description

Enable user profiles to make them visible in user profile searches.

NOTE: The user profile feature is designed only for use by Kibana and Elastic's Observability, Enterprise Search, and Elastic Security solutions.
Individual users and external applications should not call this API directly.
Elastic reserves the right to change or remove this feature in future releases without prior notice.

When you activate a user profile, it's automatically enabled and visible in user profile searches.
If you later disable the user profile, you can use the enable user profile API to make the profile visible in these searches again.

## Required authorization

* Cluster privileges: `manage_user_profile`

## Query String Parameters

- `refresh` (enum Refresh · default: false)
  If 'true', Elasticsearch refreshes the affected shards to make this operation
visible to search.
If 'wait_for', it waits for a refresh to make this operation visible to search.
If 'false', nothing is done with refreshes.
  Values: `true`, `false`, `wait_for`

## Response

`application/json`

- `acknowledged` (boolean)
  For a successful response, this value is always true. On failure, an exception is returned instead.
## Code Examples

#### Console

```console
POST /_security/profile/u_79HkWkwmnBH5gqFKwoxggWPjEBOur1zLPXQPEl1VBW0_0/_enable
```

#### JavaScript

```javascript
const response = await client.security.enableUserProfile({
  uid: "u_79HkWkwmnBH5gqFKwoxggWPjEBOur1zLPXQPEl1VBW0_0",
});
```

#### Python

```python
resp = client.security.enable_user_profile(
    uid="u_79HkWkwmnBH5gqFKwoxggWPjEBOur1zLPXQPEl1VBW0_0",
)
```

#### curl

```curl
curl -X POST "$ELASTICSEARCH_URL/_security/profile/u_79HkWkwmnBH5gqFKwoxggWPjEBOur1zLPXQPEl1VBW0_0/_enable" \
  -H "Authorization: ApiKey $ELASTIC_API_KEY"
```

#### Java

```java
client.security().enableUserProfile(e -> e
    .uid("u_79HkWkwmnBH5gqFKwoxggWPjEBOur1zLPXQPEl1VBW0_0")
);
```

#### C#

```c#
var response = await client.Security.EnableUserProfileAsync(uid: "u_79HkWkwmnBH5gqFKwoxggWPjEBOur1zLPXQPEl1VBW0_0");
```

#### PHP

```php
$resp = $client->security()->enableUserProfile([
    "uid" => "u_79HkWkwmnBH5gqFKwoxggWPjEBOur1zLPXQPEl1VBW0_0",
]);
```

#### Ruby

```ruby
response = client.security.enable_user_profile(
  uid: "u_79HkWkwmnBH5gqFKwoxggWPjEBOur1zLPXQPEl1VBW0_0"
)
```